Pipe Dreams For Young And Old

April 15, 1985|The Morning Call

The announcement by Columbia Records that a new album by soul singer Marvin Gaye will be released this month, a year after he was shot to death by his father, is big news for Gaye fans. Not since Al Jolson's recorded rendition of "My Mammy," and Francis Albert Sinatra's first cut after regaining his voice has a new release spurred such speculation and curiosity.

But now the cat's out of the bag. A Columbia tub-thumper has let it be known that Gaye's last recorded work, "Dream of a Lifetime," has something for everybody. The lyrics, she pointed out, cover the ground from erotic to religious. That insures a market from the pre-teeny-bopper set to Bible- reading grandmas in rocking chairs.

My, what a stroke of merchandising genius and talent by the people who gave us Marvin's 1982 Grammy-award winner, "Sexual Healing." And just in time for Easter gift-giving too.